Dudley, who won the Heartland Poker Tour event at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant last August, is one of the 2,557 players remaining (out of 7,319) in the WSOP main event at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Dudley entered Friday's Day 2a with 23,800 in chips, well below average, but a nice run put him at 150,600 entering Day 3 today, the first time the entire field is playing together.

Defending champion Joe Cada (Shelby Township) is among the other 40-plus Michigan players still remaining in the field. Cada and Eric Buchman are the only two players from last year's final table remaining in the field.

Here's the breakdown, with the Michigan players' Day 1 chip counts in parentheses: